Chapter 637: Burial Soil Gen Mountain

The Young Master died naturally, without any traces of human intervention.

He was caught by the Dao Court Bureau, tortured, and after some interrogation, was thrown into the Dao Prison.

Since then, it was as if this person didn't exist.

Chains on his body, no food or water, his injuries gradually worsening, no one looked at him again, no one spoke another word to him, and he just "withered away" like that.

Even after he died, it seemed no one knew.

In fact, no one even collected his body.

But this obviously didn't conform to the rules of the Dao Court Bureau.

That was why Mo Hua felt that there must be a mole in the Dao Court Bureau; only then could they kill the Young Master to silence him in the strict, closed, and dark Dao Prison without anyone knowing.

And on the Young Master, there were clearly clues about the Fire Buddha.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's face was very ugly.

"An illusion..."

In this world, besides his senior uncle, there probably wasn't anyone else who cultivated strange Dao divine sense.

It seems that in front of great cultivators above the Golden Core realm, especially Deans of the Dao Court Bureau in large prefectures, this kind of heavenly calculation fusion and cause-and-effect peeping method still needed to be used cautiously.

But one point, Mo Hua might be right.

It was just "negligence" under someone else's control.

As expected of a Dean of the Dao Court Bureau.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai was suspicious and uncertain in his heart.

Between his words, he said he was "asking for forgiveness," but it was all shirking responsibility.

Moreover, these two Dao Prison officials might not necessarily know any inside information.

"This subordinate was negligent for a moment and didn't notice whether this criminal cultivator was alive or dead. Please forgive me, Dean!"

It was as if he had been possessed by something...

Those few officials, full of panic, bowed and prostrated:

"Dean, forgive us; we really don't know..."

Even if it were reported, at most they would be scolded a few times and fined some salary.

"Don't know why, he suddenly died."

Although Gu Gu Zhanghuai was angry, it was hard for him to do anything to them.

But his senior uncle's heavenly calculation was different.

If the Young Master were judged for his crimes, it would definitely be a death sentence.

Mo Hua blinked.

He had indeed taken advantage of Gu Gu Zhanghuai's distraction, not knowing what he was thinking about, to secretly use the strange derivation algorithm fusion to peek at the Young Master's cause and effect.

"Uncle Gu, what's wrong?"

His master's heavenly derivation was still better; it just involved a larger cause and effect, and on the surface, it was still a method of the righteous path.

It was also as if his divine sense was undergoing some kind of mutation.

He felt that Mo Hua's aura had suddenly changed, becoming extremely strange, and there was also a trace of profound meaning that couldn't be explained clearly.

Including the matter with Yu'er last time...

This wasn't a big mistake to begin with.

To avoid being seen through by someone with ulterior motives...

"I was just being too suspicious..."

He summoned several officials in charge of the Dao Prison and asked sternly.

Negligence, didn't notice, causing a "must-die" death row prisoner to die a little earlier.

The "negligence" in their mouths was very likely just negligence.

Mo Hua took it as a warning in his heart.

In the Dao Court Bureau, some people were really not very clean...

"After the interrogation, no one cared about him."

But he clearly felt that trace of dangerous, strange Dao aura...

What... is going on?

Just then, Mo Hua turned around, a flash of strange color in his pitch-black eyes, and they became clear and bright again.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's brows were tightly furrowed.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's eyelids twitched.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai frowned and pondered, then his heart trembled, and he turned around abruptly to look at Mo Hua beside him.

Mo Hua was still the same Mo Hua, his eyes clear, like a deep pool, his luster restrained, and he couldn't see the bottom.

This split-second divine sense mutation had actually been detected.

If he were treated as a "little strange Daoist," that would be terrible.

Seeing Gu Gu Zhanghuai still looking at him suspiciously, his doubts not yet dispelled, Mo Hua decided to "strike first" and asked:

"Uncle Gu, did you see anything?"

"How did this Young Master die?"

"Who killed him?"

"Could it be..."

Mo Hua raised his brows and looked at the two officials in charge of the Dao Prison nearby.

The two officials immediately broke into a cold sweat and said to Gu Gu Zhanghuai:

"Dean Gu!"

"Although we were negligent, this criminal cultivator's death really has nothing to do with us..."

"How would we dare to break the law and kill someone in the Dao Prison..."

"Dean Gu, you must be clear!"

"Dean Gu..."

Gu Gu Zhanghuai was interrupted by the two, his train of thought broken, and he forgot to dwell on Mo Hua's matter.

"Alright." Gu Gu Zhanghuai's gaze was cold, sweeping over the two, "Handle this matter according to the rules; punish where punishment is due. You may go."

The two didn't dare to defy Gu Gu Zhanghuai and bowed, "Yes."

After that, the two retreated.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai wanted to say something to Mo Hua, but he looked up at the gloomy and closed ceiling of the Dao Prison and shook his head, dismissing the thought.

"Let's go out first..." Gu Gu Zhanghuai said.

"Oh."

Mo Hua followed Gu Gu Zhanghuai and left the Dao Prison.

But as he left, Mo Hua turned his head again and looked at the dead Young Master.

This Young Master, who was handsome and dashing in life, drifting through the gentle countryside, didn't know how many women he had harvested.

But in death, no one knew, leaving only tattered clothes and a dirty, rotting skin.

Sure enough, all phenomena in the world, the pleasure of flesh and blood, are all illusions.

And...

The Young Master died too naturally.

There wasn't a single trace of human intervention.

Even if he used his pitch-black pupils and strange derivation fusion, he couldn't see a single trace of cause and effect.

This method of killing was extremely high-level.

"The best way to cover up cause and effect is to let it take its natural course and not touch cause and effect..."

Mo Hua silently noted it down in his heart.

"Must learn it well..."

After leaving the Dao Prison, Gu Gu Zhanghuai's face was as cold as water.

He thought for a while and ordered people to send over all the Young Master's belongings, evidence, and storage bag.

Then he chose a quiet bureau office and looked through them himself.

Mo Hua leaned over beside him, wanting to take a peek too.

Seeing this, Gu Gu Zhanghuai quickly covered the things and shook his head, saying: "You can't look."

"Why?" Mo Hua asked.

"You're still young..."

Mo Hua didn't understand.

Seeing that Mo Hua really didn't understand, Gu Gu Zhanghuai sighed and reminded him:

"The Young Master was a pickpocket..."

In his storage bag, there were all sorts of bedroom arts, spring palace pictures, harvesting cultivation methods, records... a pile of vulgar, low-class things unsuitable for children...

He definitely couldn't let Mo Hua see them.

Otherwise, he would learn to be bad.

Mo Hua suddenly realized and remembered that when he caught the Young Master, Senior Sister Elder Murong hadn't let him see the things in the storage bag either.

"Fine, if I can't look, I won't..."

Mo Hua lay to one side, staring at Gu Gu Zhanghuai.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai felt uncomfortable being stared at by Mo Hua and said somewhat displeased:

"What are you looking at me for? Go do what you should do; I'm investigating a case..."

Mo Hua held up three fingers:

"Three-point agreement!"

"The third point: if we go out, I follow you, don't leave your side, and don't act on my own or act recklessly..."

"This is what you said yourself!"

Mo Hua said righteously.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai had a headache.

Careless, he had been careless and moved a stone to smash his own foot.

This child's mind turned too fast...

He could drill through even the smallest loophole.

"Fine..."

Gu Gu Zhanghuai was helpless and simply ignored Mo Hua, looking through the Young Master's storage bag on his own, searching for clues inside.

This storage bag had been sealed by the Dao Court Bureau.

Cultivators outside couldn't touch it.

If cultivators inside the Dao Court Bureau wanted to tamper with it, they would inevitably leave traces.

As of now, the things inside hadn't been touched by anyone.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai, relying on his many years of experience in handling cases for the Dao Court Bureau, carefully examined them one by one, paying attention to every clue and searching for any useful information.

But most of the things inside were unbearable to look at.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai became more and more annoyed as he looked.

Finally, when he saw a jade slip, his expression shook, and there was a trace of realization in his gaze.

Mo Hua, who couldn't look at the storage bag but could stare at Gu Gu Zhanghuai, instantly captured the change in Gu Gu Zhanghuai's expression.

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, "Uncle Gu, did you find a clue!"

Gu Gu Zhanghuai just wanted to nod, but then shook his head, put the jade slip on himself, and said blandly: "No."

"I saw it!" Mo Hua said firmly.

"What did you see?"

"I saw your gaze change," Mo Hua said, "You must have discovered something!"

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's scalp tingled, and he couldn't help but mutter in his heart:

Mo Hua, this little brat, must have been possessed by some old monster.

At such a young age, he's as shrewd as a ghost.

But Gu Gu Zhanghuai still said stubbornly: "I said no, so there is no."

"Fine." Mo Hua sighed.

He was a Dean of the Dao Court Bureau in the Golden Core realm; if he didn't care about his face and played the rogue, what could he, a small cultivator, do?

Mo Hua could only retreat to the second best and asked:

"Uncle Gu, where are we going next?"

Gu Gu Zhanghuai said without thinking: "The Young Master is dead, the clue is 'broken'..."

Then, seeing Mo Hua looking at him skeptically, Gu Gu Zhanghuai coughed, looked away, and said lightly:

"We can head back."

Mo Hua nodded, "Then Uncle Gu, you go back first."

"Hmm." Gu Gu Zhanghuai nodded, then was startled, "You aren't going back?"

"I have something to do."

"What is it?"

Mo Hua said: "I want to go to Bishan City and take a look at the wiped-out Xie family."

Gu Gu Zhanghuai frowned, "The Xie family has been reduced to scorched earth and has been sealed by the Dao Court Bureau; you can't get in. And Bishan City is a bit dangerous now; you can't go."

Mo Hua said in a low voice: "Then how about you take me?"

"No." Gu Gu Zhanghuai refused.

"Then I'll go myself," Mo Hua said, "You go back and tell Aunt Wan that I won't return to the Gu family, and after I go to Bishan City, I'll return to the sect myself."

Mo Hua looked calm, but his gaze was cunning.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai was stunned for a moment and instantly understood.

Mo Hua, this kid, was threatening him.

He had brought Mo Hua out, and if he didn't bring him back, he would definitely be blamed by his cousin and make her worry.

He had to bring him back safe and sound to his cousin.

And if he didn't want to go back, he couldn't use force.

Otherwise, if he forcibly kidnapped him back, and he complained, he wouldn't be able to answer to his cousin.

After all, on the surface, he was a "little benefactor" of the Shangguan family and couldn't be disrespected.

So this trip, he could only let him have his way; wherever he went, he would follow...

Gu Gu Zhanghuai hated him so much his teeth itched.

Mo Hua waited calmly for Gu Gu Zhanghuai's reply.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai pondered for a long time and finally compromised, "Fine, I'll take you, but it's agreed: once we go to Bishan City, you come back to the Gu family with me, don't get any other little ideas."

"Yeah, yeah!" Mo Hua smiled, "It's a deal!"

It was getting late, so they shouldn't set off, and the two rested for a night at an inn in Lanshan City.

At dawn the next day, after a simple meal, they set off, left Lanshan City, and headed to the nearby Bishan City.

This was Mo Hua's second time entering Bishan City.

The cliffs were cut off, the walls stood ten thousand ren high, and the mountain ridges were intertwined.

Most of the cave dwellings and buildings were built against the steep cliffs, looking strange and magnificent.

But the atmosphere in the city was somewhat oppressive.

Pedestrians coming and going were all silent, and their expressions were all uneasy and solemn.

In front of the Dao Court Bureau and all the cultivators of the city, the Fire Buddha slaughtered the entire Xie family.

He turned the Xie family into a sea of fire, wiped out the entire family, and destroyed a foundation of several hundred years in one fell swoop.

Bishan City was somewhat panicked.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's expression was even uglier, his face iron-blue all the way, wishing he could immediately behead the Fire Buddha and his group of criminal cultivators to show the public.

Before long, the two arrived at the ruins of the Xie family mansion.

Before their eyes was a piece of ruins, full of scorched earth.

Bricks were embedded in the ground outside the Xie family.

These bricks had formation arrays drawn on them, connecting head to tail, supporting a faint, invisible barrier, sealing off the Xie family, which had become a piece of scorched earth, and not allowing outsiders to enter.

This was the Dao Court Bureau's warning formation array.

"You just look from the outside." Gu Gu Zhanghuai said.

Mo Hua didn't agree, but there was no way, so he could only look inside through the warning formation array.

With this look, he saw some clues.

Although it was all charred black, the outer perimeter of the Xie family still had traces of formation arrays.

"Second-grade Gold-Earth Gen Mountain Compound Array..."

Mo Hua muttered.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai was startled when he heard the name of the formation array.

Mo Hua continued to look, and at the same time released his divine sense, no longer using strange derivation, but only using derivation to deduce the residual spiritual traces of the formation array, muttering in a low voice:

"Xie family perimeter..."

"Originally it was... a second-grade Gold-Earth Gen Mountain Compound Array, a defensive formation array combining the Five Elements Gold-Earth and the Eight Trigrams Gen Mountain..."

"But, the formation patterns were tampered with..."

"Only the gold-type formation patterns were changed, the others weren't..."

"No... it was through the change of the gold-type formation patterns that the earth-type formation patterns changed, the formation style changed, and the effect was replaced..."

"The second-grade Gold-Earth Gen Mountain Compound Array became..."

"A second-grade 'Burial' Earth Gen Mountain Compound Array..."

"This trap formation array buried the entire Xie family in their own home..."

Gu Gu Zhanghuai was shocked as he listened, his tone solemn:

"Who did you hear that from?"

"What?" Mo Hua was startled.

"The matter of the Xie family's formation array..." Gu Gu Zhanghuai looked solemn.

Mo Hua asked suspiciously: "Does one need to hear about this? Isn't it something one can see at a glance..."

See at a glance...

Gu Gu Zhanghuai turned his head and looked at the pitch-black scorched earth in front of him.

See at a glance your big head?

How can one see this?

It's pitch black, full of residue, everything has been burned; what can one see from this?

Gu Gu Zhanghuai couldn't believe it in his heart.

What Mo Hua said was basically identical to what the Dao Court Bureau had verified...

The difference was that the Dao Court Bureau had invited several second-grade formation masters, who verified it from morning to night for three full days, and only after careful comparison did they restore the changes in these formation arrays.

And because of this, they knew what had been tampered with in the Xie family's formation array.

But Mo Hua...

He just walked over and took a look...

Even through the warning formation array, without walking in to look, he saw it all?

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's mood was complex.

Although the facts were right in front of him, common sense made him refuse to believe such an outrageous thing.

"Did you... really see it?"

Gu Gu Zhanghuai asked, frowning.

"Of course!" Mo Hua said proudly, "I am a disciple of the Profound Heaven Sect!"

What's more, he was also learning formation arrays from Old Man Xun.

During this time, whenever he had merit, he would go to the Merit Pavilion to exchange for formation arrays to learn; he had learned countless second-grade formation arrays.

With Old Man Xun's guidance and the deep formation array inheritance recorded by the predecessors of the Profound Heaven Sect, Mo Hua's formation array foundation was now more solid than before.

He could now be considered a second-grade formation master with the true foundation of a great sect!

It's just that he had the ability but no name, and hadn't been graded yet.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai's brows furrowed even tighter.

Does this have half a hair's worth of relationship with the Profound Heaven Sect?

The Profound Heaven Sect isn't a sect founded on formation arrays; where would their disciples get such outrageous formation array attainments?

Even if it were a sect founded on formation arrays, it would be impossible!

What's more, you haven't even been in the sect for a year yet...

How much could you have learned?

Gu Gu Zhanghuai stared at Mo Hua for a few moments, then his mind moved, and he asked:

"Do you want to go in and take a look?"

Mo Hua was surprised, "Really?"

Gu Gu Zhanghuai nodded.

Mo Hua was suspicious.

Uncle Gu... is a bit abnormal...

Originally he wanted to go into the Xie family to take a look,

Now that he hadn't said anything, he had taken the initiative to let him go in and look.

But he wouldn't turn down such a good thing.

"Okay!" Mo Hua nodded.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai took out a golden waist token.

This waist token was made of pure gold, elegant and luxurious; compared to Mo Hua's own shabby bronze waist token, it looked much more valuable at a glance.

Mo Hua looked at it with some envy.

But for now, he could only look.

Gu Gu Zhanghuai held the gold waist token and lightly swiped it across the warning formation.

A layer of invisible, faint barrier was opened.

"Let's go."

Gu Gu Zhanghuai walked in first.

Mo Hua hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward, following Gu Gu Zhanghuai, crossing the warning formation, and walking into the Xie family home where the entire family had been killed.

His footsteps had just landed, stepping on the scorched black ground where the blood had been burned dry.

Suddenly, a scream rang out in his ears.

This sound was extremely shrill, filled with boundless pain.

In broad daylight, Mo Hua's vision was hazy.

A sea of fire suddenly appeared in the dark night.

Within the sea of fire, there were dense figures; they ran, struggled, and screamed in pain, like wronged souls suffering in hell.

Executioners with ferocious expressions raised their butcher knives, slaughtering, dismembering, and reveling.

Blade after blade pierced flesh, sliced open chests, cut open abdomens, and pulled out bloody internal organs...

The sea of fire boiled, blood and fire blending together.

Faces were ferocious, like demons dancing wildly.

And those who died miserably were like livestock being slaughtered...